Bøger af David Fairer

The third in the 'Chocolate House Mysteries' series, Captain Hazard's Game conjures up the vibrant life of early eighteenth-century gamesters and money-men.

The second in the 'Chocolate House Mysteries' series, The Devil's Cathedral captures all the energies of the early eighteenth-century stage with its ruthless ambitions and jealousies. The book weaves its classic whodunit plot around the actual events of April-May 1708.

The canon of eighteenth-century poetry has expanded to include women poets, laboring-class and provincial poets, and many unheard voices. This book questions some of the structures, categories, and labels that have given the age its reassuring shape in literary history.

Covent Garden, January 1708. Widow Trotter has big plans for her recently-inherited coffee house, not suspecting that within days her little kingdom will be caught up in a national drama involving scandal, conspiracy and murder...